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Burlington, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Burlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49029. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Burlington within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Burlington grew from 261 to 281 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010261
2020281+20 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 2018 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000048 - 2019
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURLINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000148 - 2018
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000044 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURLINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000094 - 2018
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000039 - 2019
3 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2018
6 March 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 35 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Burlington: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
David Allwood PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
William Case Marl PitCalciumPast Producer
Calhoun Co Pit Cole BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
George Miller & Sons IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Turtle Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBurlington$25,000A utility pole was blown down onto a transformer at 10 mile road in Burlington and 12 to 15 inch trees were blown down near M60, also in Burlington.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBurlington$20,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBurlington$15,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Burlington during the early morning hours.
May 2007HailBurlington$10,000A severe thunderstorm produced one inch diameter hail and estimated wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. which brought down several six inch diameter trees two miles west of Burlington.
August 2002HailBurlington$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported by spotters three miles northeast of Burlington (Calhoun county).
December 2007Thunderstorm WindBurlington$2,000A tree was blown down across a road near R drive and 9 mile roads.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindBurlington$500Calhoun County Central Dispatch relayed reports of one large tree downed and several small trees uprooted along I and J Drives in Newton Township. Local law enforcement officer reported all trees were pushed over in the same direction and damage appeared to be due to straight-line winds. Several trained weather spotters and the local media reported wind gusts of 45 to 50 mph associated with this cluster of thunderstorms as it moved across Battle Creek, Eaton Rapids, and DeWitt.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBurlington-Severe tree damage and some property damage found in this area.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBurlington-Calhoun County Emergency Manager reported a 65-mph wind gust measured in Burlington, with significant wind damage across Calhoun County. The Calhoun County Road Commission reported many fallen trees and limbs blocked dozens of rural roads, mostly across the southern portion of the county including Union City, Burlington, Leroy Township, and Homer. The Battle Creek Enquirer reported 12,400 homes and businesses lost power during the storm, which downed over 100 power lines in the county. Damage estimates were not available.
June 1998HailBurlington-no account filed
July 1997HailBurlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tekonsha5.1 miles11
Stanley Corners8.2 miles14
Athens8.3 miles14
East Leroy8.4 miles14
Wrights Corners9.1 miles11
Joppa9.2 miles14
Pine Creek10.2 miles14
Bentleys Corners11.3 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurlingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333442The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622286. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.